Thursday, November 19, 2009

This shoulder bag has an inside pocket for hand phone and car keys. The rest of the bag items go all the way in. The green, white and yellow floral prints light cotton fabric is matched with dark chocolate cotton inside lining. The result is so cool. See how it perfectly match my dark chocolate Roxy purse! Cool.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Wah.. just attended a much anticipated event, the birthday party for Tunku Ahmad Ismail and Tunku Afzan 9 year old twins of Tengku Mahkota Pahang and Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, Tengku Puan Pahang.

I was invited as Tengku Puan wishes to meet with members of Stitchers, a club which Tengku Puan herself founded. As the name indicates, Stitchers is a club for enthusiasts of cross stitching. Naturally Sulam Sayang signs in for membership.

Sulam Sayang hopes to share more activities with Tengku Puan and Stitchers in the future.

Well it's a tote bag - one you can carry a lot of stuffs in it. Like I have keys, phone, purse, coin purse, lipstick, thumb drive, nail clipper, medicine, note book, pens and others I carry around in my bag. And I thought well to include a laptop I need to have a bigger bag. So I started on this project.

Initially I started to work on a red checked bag designed big enough for a laptop. It started well with suggested how-to by Edina with a book reference magazine. But then I stopped midway as my machine had some problems. So into a shoe box went all the materials.

Then this idea came to mind.

I chose a cheetah printed cotton fabric for the bag. For a good finishing, the bag is fully lined with plain black cotton fabric. So it's pretty sturdy to carry books or groceries or stuffs. I plan on offering this bag to others for RM30. Add another RM10 to RM20 if you want it beaded for extra bling-bling.

Can't wait to start on another one with a lighter yellow cheetah print color. Order yours now!!

This time also I switched from using pearl beads to rice beads. The triangular shape centers the vibrant floral with darker glass beads as the insides. Triangular vibrant floral buds are then stitched in between the larger vibrant floral motif. Very satisfying. Love the lilac and magenta colour tones.

For your information, magenta is also referred to as fuchsia. Fuchsia is from the electrifying pink tone. Lilac is from the purple tones. On this work the spikes for the vibrant floral motif is in two colors, magenta and dark purple. While the inside triangle made with rice bead is in dark magenta with dark lilac glass bead as the center bead.